Jul 22 1966
From The Space Library
Senate approved by voice vote $5,000,419,000 1967 NASA authorization recommended in joint House-Senate conference report (H.R. 14324). Bill was then sent to White House for President Johnson's signature. (CR, 7/22/66, 15981-4; Wash. Post, 7/23/66, A6)
GEMINI XAstronauts John W. Young and Michael Collins flew from recovery ship U.S.S. Guadalcanal to KSC to begin 10 days of debriefing on July 18-21 mission. (Strothman, Wash. Post, 7/23/66, A3)
First move of 402-ft.-high, 9-million-lb. mobile service structure by crawler-transporter from parking area at KSC to Pad 39-A. (KSC Historian; Av. Wk., 8/1/66, 27)
NASA responded to 47 questions on post-Apollo programs submitted by Space Science and Space Technology panels of President's Science Advisory Committee; bibliography of advanced study contract reports was appended to 107-page document. Information would be used in preparation of PSAC report on post-Apollo goals. (Text)
Implications of the GEMINI X mission received editorial comment. Watertown [N.Y.] Daily Times: "The mind and the body of man have demonstrated once again what brilliance and discipline can accomplish. They have also demonstrated once again that fear born out of ignorance is overcome by those who will prepare themselves through training and perseverance." (Watertown Daily Times, 7/22/66)
Los Angeles Times: GEMINI X flight moved U.S. a few steps closer to the goal of landing a man on the moon before 1970," and it showed the time had come to look "beyond the Apollo moon landing, and to map new goals for manned spaceflight." (L.A. Times, 7/22/66)
New York Times: "Useful work" accomplished by Michael Collins in retrieving micrometeoroid experiment from GATV VIII portended the day when "men working in space will put huge structures together, joining vehicles and parts that were rocketed separately and even at widely separated intervals." Use of GATV X's propulsion system to power docked GEMINI X - GATV X "opens breathtaking new possibilities in both the economics and technology of tomorrow's space travel." (NYT, 7/22/66,28M)
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